Remote admin using VNC.

[Duke Senter]

I agreed with the disabling of the viewer at first, but I think that may =
be a somewhat pointless effort due to the ability to use a web browser =
as the viewer client, unless, of course, you don't have a web browser =
installed (or uninstalled it from win95) on the users' machines.

When we administrators are in the field, sometimes it's nice to connect =
back to our machine to do some administrative whatever to expedite the =
problem.  The problem is that then your IP address (or hostname) is left =
in the most recently viewed pages.  Makes security of the password =
protection all the more important if you choose to use it this way.  The =
perfectly paranoid would probably balk at using it in this way.

Sorry for the ramble, but hope that helps you understand some usability =
issues with VNC,
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-----Original Message-----
From:	Geoffrey Taylor [SMTP:geofft "at" denham.nag.co.uk]
Sent:	Friday, November 20, 1998 5:46 AM
To:	'vnc-list "at" orl.co.uk'
Subject:	Remote admin using VNC.

Hi there VNC people,
I am a sysadmin for a network of about 100 PCs and
unix workstations. We often need to
remotely administer Win95, Win98 and WinNT PCs.
The VNC view system looks like it might be very
useful in this respect and I have been testing
it out on two PCs. Some questions have come
to mind whilst doing this -I don't think I can
see answers to these in the docs or FAQ.

1)
On PCs which are going to be administered, we would
like to use the VNC server software on its own, so
that PC users could not run the VNC viewer program
at all. Is there an installation procedure which
only installs the server software, not the VNC viewer?
Better still, is there a way to disable the VNC viewer
whether it is installed or not?

2)
We would install the server program as a service. We
would like to have something to notify the user of the
PC when a VNC viewer has successfully connected to the
VNC server -something to flash on the service tray
perhaps? This has two purposes, firstly, it will placate
those (a little) who fear covert operations by their
systems administrators, and secondly (given the setup
in the previous point is possible) it will mean we will
be aware of any unauthorised use of the viewer.

3)
On the test PC I have been using (Win95) with VNC
server installed as a service, nothing appears in the
service tray at all. From my reading of the documentation,
this doesn't seem to be correct behaviour -or perhaps I
missed something. Should something appear in the service
tray on a Win95 system when VNC server is installed as
a service?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Geoff.
-------------------------------------------------------
Dr Geoff Taylor
glt "at" sa1.star.uclan.ac.uk


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